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liftoff
noun as in rocket launch
verb as in take flight
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Blue Origin, the space company owned by Jeff Bezos, indefinitely postponed the slated Sunday launch of its New Glenn rocket, citing unfavorable cloud cover at its liftoff site in Florida.
Diaz was making money writing songs — Connie Britton sang one of her tunes on the soapy ABC series “Nashville” — but she struggled to achieve the kind of liftoff she was looking for as an artist.
Then it would be a matter of seconds before liftoff.
Gurr created the initial design, a “Buck Rogers”-inspired space age vehicle, as Gurr wanted it to feel sleek and ready for liftoff.
Losing time sounds like it should slot neatly into a ticking-clock suspense film, but it never achieves liftoff the way “Memento” turned an amnesiac’s daily struggle into catnip.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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